Two New TLD's Near Approval

Iphtashu Fitz writes "The Associated Press is reporting that ICANN is nearing approval of two new top level domains: .travel and .post. The Universal Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland, wants ".post" for national postal services, local post offices, business partners and stamp collectors around the world. Private companies that provide postal services, such as Federal Express and UPS, also would be eligible. The Travel Partnership Corp., a New York-based trade group, seeks ".travel" for travel agents, airlines, bed and breakfast operators, tourism bureaus and others in the travel industry. ICANN is also considering eight other TLD's including .asia, .eu, and .jobs but they haven't progressed as far as .travel and .post. More information here."

Wow, they did it

[Anonymous Coward]

They come up with TLDs as useless as .museum. Bravo!

.post??

[Gothmolly]

I'll register the first.post domain.

so some slashdotter will register

[commodoresloat]

first.post

Re:Nonsense

[Muda69]

I'm going to register www.first.post as soon as it's available......

Re:seriously.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why isn't there a .porn?


What do you think .asian is going to be? What about .teens?

They forgot one...

[gik]

.ENOUGHALREADY

Re:seriously.

[Anonymous Coward]

I call first.post

Re:seriously.

[AuMatar]

Because all music on the net is stolen, you damn pirate!

ala /.

[dirvish]

What about .slash or .dot?

Re:Wow, they did it

[plover]

Really. http://goatse.post just doesn't have that "ring" to it.

Re:Wow, they did it

[plover]

Where's "+1: Dead accurate"?

Come on, this is Slashdot. "+1: Dead accurate" would be as useless as "Papal Brand Condoms."

Re:Wow, they did it

[Ollierose]

don't forget bigasa.post for the spam emailers

Re:.mov TLD for movies

[to be a troll]

cause Windows would try to open it in Quicktime for windows...it would be really annoying

Re:Wow, they did it

[Bequita]

"Why, in five years' time, I'll bet we have... a good three or four registrants!" How many postal systems are there in the world? Surely no more than 200 or so. Even at 100% saturation, this will still be a void wasteland."

You forget, the .post TDL is open to stamp collectors too. I be that'll increase the number of registrants by oh say... one.

(PS - Any nominees for suckers to advertise on that sole stamp collectors site?)

Re:Right.

[MP3Chuck]

.omgwtfbbq?

Re:Seconded

[jsebrech]

I have no idea what the Belgium post office thinks it can accomplish with the .post TLD. If they think they can get people's minds to believe "Oh, that's a postal facility, I'll check under .post first", well, maybe they're right, but I wouldn't bet on it.

The belgian post office's website is known simply as www.post.be. But now that they can scoop up www.be.post, I'm sure their site will be much, much easier to find.

This .post domain is only reinforcing the idea in my mind that icann should be spelt icant.

Re:2 more

[DocSnyder]

What about .scam and .spam?

.info and .biz exist.

Re:Wow, they did it

[dirk]

For my thoughts on this issue, please head to dumbasa.post. There's lots of iCANN info there.

Puns

[atomm1024]

At least this provides the opportunity for more silly domain puns. Maybe, if it's as unregulated as .com, .net, and all those other general hierarchies, it'll even be abused by newspapers -- think washington.post, newyork.post, etc.

Actually, that would make for nicer URLs, but it's just not right...

In all seriousness, maybe there should be a legally-regulated .adult or .porn or .xxx TLD. If pr0n sites were required to use those, or at least any new ones, it would make blocking access by children vastly easier. The browser or blocking software can just check the URL. ... On the other hand, I would like to see ICRA ratings more widely adopted and supported. There's more flexibility.

But still make a .porn TLD. That would also make things a lot easier for people searching for porn.

While I'm throwing around domain-name ideas in a post that will probably be moderated -1 Silly And Rambling anyway, how about a .secx TLD. Then all the se.cx sites can move there, and finally, the .cx TLD shall be free to be a home for domains of legitimate relevance to, or located in, Christmas Island. If there are any, which there probably aren't.

Also, we need a .slash TLD, just so someone can get orgdot.slash, and create an Elgoog-style mirror of Slashdot. (Of course, it will probably end up being taken over by trolls from the American Association of White Female Women, the mirror GNAA...)

Re:Wow, they did it

[gfody]

.x is for eXtreme websites

Re:NEW TLD: .goatse

[plover]

microsoft.goatse

Y'know, I'm really sure I don't want to know where that's going to go today.

Re:Wow, they did it

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on, this is Slashdot. "+1: Dead accurate" would be as useless as "Papal Brand Condoms."

This is way off topic, but it should be noted under John Paul II there is an approved use of condoms. They are used with the "New life" form of invetro fertilization where the male wears a perforated condom. It's the pope's belief that you at least tried to conceive naturally so it's not a sin if you ask a doctor to take the seed that was spent in an act of love and just put it in the right place.

So it could be said that the Catholic Church approves the use of condoms so long as they are holy.

Mr. Huge Ego

[spartan]

So now Steve Jobs needs his own TLD?

.geek

[jedkiwi]

Wake me up when there is a .geek domain.

Re:seriously.

[kephunk]

I reckon .cum would be way better than .xxx or .porn